Molly Ringwald Quotes

I can't' really sing a song unless I really connect with the lyrics.

The cover I was really excited about was 'Seventeen' magazine. To me, it was much bigger than 'Time.' 'Seventeen' was where I wanted to be.

I think when people hear about a celebrity writing a book of any kind, the assumption is that it was dictated to a ghostwriter.

When I was turning 40, I felt that there were no books out there that hit the spot in terms of what I wanted to read.

If you leave home for a while ... you question the conventional wisdom you've grown up with. That doesn't mean you have to change your opinions or who you are, but it's good to ask the questions.

It's the universal feeling that we all are alone - that we're all different. I think the movie's one resounding theme is that everybody feels the same, and we're all alone together. Some people come up to me on the street and thank me for helping them get through their teen years.

I never really felt like I belonged in California.

People feel like they grew up with me.

I can't believe I gave my panties to a geek.

To preach abstinence, I think, is absolutely not the right message to give to kids.

In life, there is always that special person who shapes who you are, who helps to determine the person you become.

Originally I considered myself a singer.

When I was a little kid I thought I would grow up to be black and sing jazz in nightclubs.

My parents always raised us with the idea of having college in mind. You sort of need a college education. It's part of life. It's something that you do - like going to your prom.

I've been acting for so long it's more like - I won't say easy, exactly, but there's not the same angst with writing that comes about with acting. Writing - particularly when you're writing yourself, when it's you, when it's your life, you really can't hide.

Automatically everybody thinks of me as an actress who is trying to sing. And if I weren't me I'd probably think the same thing.

Not all women write the same. But I don't understand why the model is that you're supposed to write like a man, and that means you're a real writer.

Did you work for the money to buy those earrings? Or did your Daddy buy those for you?

The wonderful thing about books is you never run out of them, you can just keep going. So I'm always finding new writers, or old writers that I just happen not to have read.

I think that it is real important for someone to be really honest and open emotionally. I'm really an emotional person. If I'm that way and the guy isn't that way I just really feel like a jerk.

I've always been the go-to girl for all of my girlfriends in terms of relationship advice or clothing advice.

I think we do live in a very specialized society, where once you think about somebody as one thing, it's hard to change that. But I do a lot of things. I act, I write, I sing.

I just did in my early twenties what most did when they were teenagers, being free and exploring and making mistakes, but I did it in France. I did it privately.

I like to say, jazz music is kind of like my musical equivalent of comfort food. You know, it's always where I go back to when I just want to feel sort of grounded.

John Hughes had such a huge impact on filmmaking.

I wish I had been more prepared, both for success and for failure, when I was younger.

All of the advice that I give, I'm not an expert by any means, but it's just my opinion. So if somebody likes me or likes y style or my career, I think they should have that feeling.

I don't have control over how people choose to perceive me. The only thing I have control over is my writing.

I used to sing with my father's jazz band and then when I was ten years old a musician friend of his suggested that I try out for the first west coast production of Annie.

I think you can be mature without being grown-up. You can also be grown-up without being mentally mature. One of them is forced, while the other one is your choice.

A lot of people don't realize that not everybody gets high.

I've done kissing scenes with people who have been loaded. I'd think, 'Do you actually have to drink that Jack Daniels to kiss me?'

I can't stand films that make the kids out to be heroes and the parents to be imbeciles.

I think once you're a mother, you kind of always see your kids as a baby anyway no matter how old they get.

I'm so associated with being young and being with a teenager.

When you say you're 40, you can't call yourself an ingenue any more.

I have a very independent spirit.

I think people assume that women write about the domestic sphere. Women write about relationships and family. Men do, too, but then it's the Great American Novel.

Jazz is my comfort music, like comfort food.

I grew up in a home filled with music and had an early appreciation of jazz since my dad was a jazz musician. Beginning at around age three I started singing with his band and jazz music has continued to be one of my three passions along with acting and writing. I like to say jazz music is my musical equivalent of comfort food. It's always where I go back to when I want to feel grounded.

Usually the kids are portrayed as very one-dimensional. Like these mindless animals that just have three things on their minds: getting laid, getting drunk, and driving real fast over Mulholland Drive.

I never felt terribly comfortable in the public eye.

I think once you sort of cross over and you realize what books can be - and if they mean something to you - there's just no stopping you.

The moment you make someone promise anything is the same moment you ask them to lie to you.

We are the most brutal with the people we love the most.

I've always been the bookish type, and I've never really hidden that about myself.

Yes, my kids come first, but as a parent I need to come to them with a fresh mind. I can't be too exhausted or too tired. And I am a better parent when I have more energy.

I feel like women very often do write differently than men, but women write things that men can't write.